Defending the Crusader Kingdoms

This blog is dedicated to discussing the Crusader Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus. Dr. Schrader holds a PhD in History from the University of Hamburg. For more information visit: http://defenderofjerusalem.com or http://crusaderkingdoms.com

Saturday, March 14, 2026

The Italian Communes in the Crusader States

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The Italian maritime powers played a critical role in establishing Frankish rule over the coastal cities of the Levant and contributed mater...

Saturday, March 7, 2026

Settlers and Poulains -- the New Citizens of the Latin East

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The character of the crusader states was defined not by the natives who had been there before and adapted to many conquerors, nor by th...

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Crusaders, Pilgrims and Militant Monks

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One of the unique features of the population of the Holy Land in the crusader era was the number of transients. In almost any year, tens o...

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Saturday, February 21, 2026

Muslims and Jews in the Crusader States

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The fate of the non-Christian natives of the Levant under Frankish rule was by no means as dire as widely presumed -- much less depicted ...

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Helena P. Schrader: Helena P. Schrader is a former U.S. diplomat, who earned her PhD in Modern History from the University of Hamburg. She spent roughly one-third of her life in Berlin and first explored the pivotal events of the Berlin Crisis 1948-1949 in her comprehensive non-fiction study The Blockade Breakers: The Berlin Airlift. Schrader is the author of twenty novels, twelve of which have earned one or more literary awards. Three of her books have also attained "best-seller" status on amazon, including #1 Best Seller in the categories Aviation History and Wartime Fiction.

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